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• First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering work
• Traces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of global social transformations
• Distills the central ideas in Castells work into an accessible and concise introduction for undergraduate students
• Explores Castells writings on the network society, informational capitalism and democracy in crisis
• Provides a critical analysis of Castells thought in relation to ongoing debates about globalization

• First in-depth study of Manuell Castells pioneering work
• Traces Castells thought from his work on urban change in the 1970s to his recent theories of global social transformations
• Distills the central ideas in Castells work into an accessible and concise introduction for undergraduate students
• Explores Castells writings on the network society, informational capitalism and democracy in crisis
• Provides a critical analysis of Castells thought in relation to ongoing debates about globalization

Deep Search collects 13 texts which investigate the social and political dimensions of how we navigate the deep seas of knowledge. What do we win, and what do we lose when we move from an analogue to a digital information order? How is computer readable significance produced, how is meaning involved in machine communication? Where is the potential of having access to such vast amounts of information? What are the dangers of our reliance on search engines and are there any approaches that do not follow the currently dominating paradigm of Google? This volume answers these questions...